Heights native returns to offer unique services for seniors
Judith Eugene has returned to Cleveland Heights, where she grew up, to open two businesses: The Loving Hands Group and Loving Hands Yoga and Reiki Studio.
The Loving Hands Group provides a unique variety of enrichment activities for seniors and others with limited mobility. It works by pairing clients with professionals, skilled hobbyists and alternative health care practitioners who visit the clients in their homes or group living facilities, such as assisted-living and nursing homes.
Members of The Loving Hands Group use their skills and talents to provide clients with an extensive list of activities to help keep their minds engaged and their bodies active, and to help keep them connected with friends and family.
The company’s goal is to bring education, professional skills, hobbies, physical fitness, and health to those who are having difficulty getting out and accessing these activities themselves.
Services include architecture, such as designing home modifications for handicapped accessibility; interior decorating; art, music and writing; Reiki therapy, yoga, cooking, sewing, gardening, pet interactions, and even classic car shows. The list of services will change, depending on the needs of her clients, Eugene said.
Eugene also has opened Loving Hands Yoga and Reiki studio in Cleveland Heights to offer Reiki therapy treatments and several types of yoga classes. With its unique home-based setting, the studio emphasizes individualized, personal attention in a quiet and relaxing environment.
Offering a variety of yoga classes, Loving Hands Yoga and Reiki is able to accommodate beginners and experienced yoga students. In addition to Gentle and Active Yoga, the studio also offers chair yoga, yoga and Reiki, and yoga for recovery. All classes weave in discussions about yoga principles and philosophies to exercise mind and body.
Reiki is a gentle therapeutic technique for stress reduction, relaxation and general well-being. Treatment sessions last about an hour and are conducted on a massage table, bed or chair. Loving Hands Yoga and Reiki offers free phone consultations to explain the treatment process and its benefits.
Eugene is Cleveland Heights native and graduate of Cleveland Heights High School and Kent State University. She left the area after college, but decided to return, after her mother’s death last year, to be near family and friends.
Both Loving Hands Yoga and Reiki and The Loving Hands Group are members of the Heights Independent Business Alliance. For a complete listing of services, contact Loving Hands Yoga and Reiki and The Loving Hands Group at 216-408-5578 or www.LovingHandsYoga.com and www.LovingHandsGroup.com. In January, Eugene will be teaching a class, "Introduction to Reiki," through the Shaker Heights Recreation Department. For more information, go to www.shakeronline.com/recreation/.
Bob Rosenbaum is a regular contributor to the Heights Observer, and has known Judith Eugene since high school.